12 Hudson Valley Areas Among Most Prosperous in New York

These Hudson Valley places are among the most prosperous in New York State.

NYUP.com looked into data collected by the public policy research organization Economic Innovation Group and used the following key metrics to find the communities with the highest economic well being.

• Adults without a High School Diploma
• Poverty Rate
• Prime-Age Adults Not in Work
• Housing Vacancy Rate
• Median Income Ratio
• Change in Employment
• Change in Establishments

The Economic Innovation Group looked into every zip code in America and combined them to make a "distressed communities index score (DCI)." NYUP.com looked into the data and compiled a list of the top 53 zip codes in "Upstate New York". Below are the most prosperous zip codes in the Hudson Valley according to the data.

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